days out, the presidential election. thank you for waking up with him. i'm brook baldwin. "state of the union" with candy crowley begins right now. a monster storm stalks the east coast. hunker down and buckle up. today the ending begins. >> we can't afford four more years like the last four years. >> i need your help to keep moving america forward. >> the last mine days with obama campaign senior advisor david axelrod and republican national committee member reince prebus, and then bob mcdonald and former ohio democratic governor ted strickland. plus, who has a big mow. with bill and democratic pollster anna greenberg, and time magazine's michael duffy. i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union."

hurricane sandy has sidelined the presidential campaigns in some spots. both candidates have canceled events in critical swing states, and a more -- a surprise nonetheless, the des moines register endorsed mitt romney for president. the first time in 40 years the newspaper picked the republican nominee. while the editors praise president obama's early efforts to revitalize the economy through his stimulus plan, it concluded his record on the economy the past four years does not suggest he would lead in the direction the nation must go in the next four years. joining me now for the politics of weather and everything else is obama campaign senior advisor david axelrod. good morning, david. let me start here with the storm. when you look at virginia where this is likely to be the swing state most affected, does mying worry you about that state being more or less paralyzed by weather for a couple three, four days? >> well, the first thing i think

we should say is we're most concerned about people. this storm could affect 50 million americans. the president has been in close contact with fema and dhs and all the agencies that have responsibility here to make sure we're doing everything we can for people, and that's what he is going to continue to do throughout this -- throughout this storm, and in terms of how it affects the election, i don't think anybody really knows. obviously we want unfettered access to the polls because we believe that the more people come out, the better we're going to do, and so to the extent that it makes it harder, you know, that's a source of concern, but i don't know how all the politics will sort out. it depends on how scenarios are impacted and so the best thing we can do is focus on how we can help people during this storm and hope that it all clears out and that by the next weekend we'll be free of it and people

can focus on the election. >> let me put up a recent abc news-washington post poll for our viewers. the question was who do you trust to do a better job on the economy? posed to likely voters. president obama 44%. governor romney, 51%. why after all this time does governor romney beat president obama when it comes to the question of who could best handle the economy? >> well, first of all, candy, there's a plethora of polls out there. >> a lot of them sort of show this, david. >> i actually prefer the cnn polls. i like the one you put out on friday where we were ahead in ohio and in states like ohio and elsewhere people know the reality, which is the president took tough steps to save our economy from freefall to save the auto industry, which governor romney would not have done, and he has a vision of how to move this economy forward.

that will rebuild the middle class. that will -- and governor romney who runs around this country now saying i represent change doesn't represent change. he what he represents is a return to a failed task. >> still more feel think the governor would do better with the economy than the president. >> in that particular poll -- in that particular poll, candy, that may be the case, but in reality that's not the case. if you look at what is going on around the country, the flood of early voting that's going on all over this country very much in our favor i think people know what the reality is. they don't want to go back to the failed policies of the past. they want to move forward. they want to move forward in a way that creates solid economic growth that will lift the middle class. not the kind of trickle down policies that failed the country in the first place. >> you have suggested and others have suggested m campaign that the momentum that the romney campaign talks about and is evident in at least some of the state polls is a fiction and

that the state polls are further apart and more to the advantage of the president than anyone is letting on. is that how you see this race in the final nine days? >> well, i do think that governor romney gained a little after the first debate. i think it levelled off. this race is where you and i have been -- i have said this to you many times over the course of the last year. it is a close race. as you look at these battleground states, we are even or ahead in virtually all of them in these critical states like ohio. we maintain a consistent lead. i think you had it as a three-point lead in october. a four-point lead with us at 50% as of friday, so, yes, that's how i view it, but the main thing is not to look at the polling, but to look at the voting. millions of people vote. about one-third of the people in iowa have voted, for example, and we believe that we are mounting up a very, very large lead in iowa based on where those early votes are coming from. we're enthused about what we're

seeing. excuse me? >> democrats generally do better in most states in the early voting, the absentee. at least the early voting. >> the question -- but the question is, candy, how are you doing relative to the targets you set, relative to what you have done before? we've seen -- for example, in florida we've seen record turnout yesterday and particularly in our areas of strength far out pacing anything weave seen before whereby in florida we lost the mail-in vote there by 250,000 votes in the last election. still in florida this time we're much, much closer. 60,000 or so is what we believe. all the indications are very positive. we built our campaign and our organization for this very close race, and we're very confident in where we are now and where we're going to be on november 6th. >> i want to play you just a tiny sort of group of soundbytes that were taken from the

president's speeches over the past week or so. >> governor romney is hoping you too will come down with a severe case of romnesia. >> everything he is doing right now is to hide his real positions and try to win this election. >> there's no jobs plan. there's just a snow job on the american people. >> there's a gallop poll out that shows that over the past couple of days the president's approval rating has actually dropped about seven points, and it coincides with this kind of rhetoric. is that your closing argument? is your closing argument to continue to pound governor romney? >> first of all, candy, i'm happy to go poll to poll for you, but let's set aside the polls for a second. the governor's closing -- the president's closing message is exactly what i said before, which is we've made some progress. we have to build on that process, and we have to move forward in a way that builds an economy that works for the middle class. what we can't can't do is go

back to the failed policies of the past. governor romney, the centerpiece and really the only piece of his plan that is real is this $5 trillion tax cut. $2 trillion in extra spending for the pentagon. no plan to pay for, it and deregulate wall street. this is what's going to move us forward, and that's not going to move us forward. >> i asked you this because in general closing statements, as you know, tend to turn back to the positive side and there is an argument that a candidate still is pounding his adversary at this point is worried. >> well, candy, if you have been traveling with governor romney, he is pounding us pretty hard as well because this is a close election. it's a choice. there is no doubt that what americans have in front of them is a choice between policies that will, you know, emphasize education, research and development, clean energy technology, manufacturing and the kinds of things that will

grow this economy, create good jobs, and give people the training and education they need to fill them. that's the president's plan. governor romney's plan is to go backwards to the trickle down theory of the past. that is a choice people face. we're going to keep hammering away at that choice until election day because there's a better future ahead of us, but we need to grab for it and not go backward to the policies that put us in this mess in the first place. >> david axelrod senior advisor of the president's campaign. thank you very much. >> when we return, governor romney is clear on what he thinks americans want. >> americans are ready for change, for growth, for jobs, and more take-home pay. we'll bring it to them. >> will he get the chance to deliver? that with rnc chairman reise prevas next. ♪ with a low national plan premium... ♪ ...and copays as low as one dollar... ♪ ...saving on your medicare prescriptions is easy.

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>> it's just not true. our poll numbers show what a lot of the other polls are showing, which is clearly a momentum shift towards mitt romney. if you look at the state of play in ohio, for example, you know, a month ago we were seven points down. a couple weeks later we were five, three. some of them showing even today in the morning, so, i mean, when you have the momentum and you are a challenger in a tie race, the challenger wins in the tie race. >> he is correct that those absentee ballots coming in and the early voting, particularly in ohio and now apparently in florida, do heavily favor the president. does that surprise you? what's your pushback? >>le with, the -- there are two different types of early voting. there's absentee ballot mail voting, which we're ahead, and then there's early voting, which they're add, but what they're not telling you bsh they're telling you where we're ahead in early voting. what they're not telling you is that they are a fraction of where they were in 2008. they're not where they were in 2008. we're far ahead of where we were

in 2008. we're going to be -- you know, our ground game is better than their ground game. we are going to do more voter contacts this year than all of 2008 and all of 2004 combined. we have an army on the ground. >> how do you know your ground game? we've always wondered this. how do you know that? >> that's a good question. you can't fake the numbers. we have voiceover internet phones. we have real-time -- we use google maps, iphones, ipads. we do a survey question door to door. they get transferred instantly -- they're instantly transferred on to computer dashboards, so i can tell you in a second at 1:30 today if you came by the rnc, i could show you what offices and we can put 40 offices in ohio, 50 offices in florida up on a screen, and i can tell you here's what's happening in youngstown. here's what's happening in hialeah, florida. instantly. the numbers are the numbers. they don't -- they're not created by us. we've got a ground game that is second to none, and the momentum is with us, and in a tie race,

again, the challenger always wins in a tie race. >> there's a lot of talk among romney types and romney supporters saying we don't have to win ohio. i know you haven't given up there. there's other ways. we can expand the map. where would you expand the map should he not win ohio? where is that? >> i was just in iowa last night, and people feel pretty about what's going on in iowa. yol "the des moines register" endorsed mitt romney because barack obama hasn't followed through with his promises, and i it tell you right now that a lot of the promises barack obama made were in iowa. he didn't come through on those promises. i think that's a big deal. wisconsin, i'll be there tomorrow. wisconsin, i think, right now the momentum is with governor romney. we've done a whole lot of winning as republicans in wisconsin. you look at colorado. >> let me stop you in wisconsin because i want to read you something that david axelrod told "the daily caller." >> we expected wisconsin to be closer than last time. it is in our column now, and it's going to be in our column. >> yeah, well, he can say whatever he wants to say. i mean, they haven't been able to win in wisconsin for a long

time. they claim that the obama machine was out during the walker recall. we basically crushed them in wisconsin. i have seen firsthand the difference between obama's rhetoric on their ground game and the reality, and the reality is they're not as good as they think they are, but overall besides the ground game talk, this is about the president's policies, the current state of the economy. ates complete disaster. only one person has been very clear on a machine to get this economy back on track, and that's been governor romney. the president still hasn't delivered anything serious as a plan. that's his problem. he has -- there's nothing there, candy. other than perhaps proving clint eastwood right. >> let me ask you about party image. i am reminded, mitch daniels, former governor of indiana, said very early on this party cannot be about social issues this time. we really need to concentrate on the economy, and, yet, it keeps coming up, as you know, brought

on in large part by republican candidates. you saw richard murdock step into it with clumsy words or todd akin. putting two seats in danger that you all had sort of counted on in the senate. you see the president pounding you fairly hard -- or poubding mitt romney fairly hard on this. here's an example of one of his ads that's out there. or not. it was -- >> i know the ad. >> you know the ad. i'm sure you do. my question for you is do these things hurt you? does it hurt the party image to have of these issues out there in a way that makes the party or that is portrayed as making the party look unbending and, you know, anti-woman, as is described in the obama ad some. >> i don't think any party has a monopoly on gaffs.

clearly, you know, people running for office misspeak and they make mistakes, but i think the reality is, candy, overwhelmingly people out there are not -- i promise you, people out there are not talking about what richard murdock said. what they're asking me about is -- >> there's no trickle up, you don't think, to the -- >> there are things people are talking about, and it's the economy, and they're talking about what happened in benghazi. why after a cry for help to leon panetta and after the president gave a directive to protect -- he claims he gave a correct directive to protect those people panetta got a cry for help. panetta now claims that he didn't -- he told the personnel to stand down. so either the president didn't give the directive or the president isn't being truthful or perhaps leon panetta acted as commander in chief. that's what -- this is the subject right now that people are talking about, and the economy. not about richard murdock. >> you more than anyone when this is over, you retain your

job regardless of what happens, and you are dealing with party image, and so i think the other thing we have out there, of course, former governor sinunu suggesting that colin powell is supporting president obama because president obama is black sf so is colin powell. he has since taken it back. as the party chairman, do you worry about stufr like that? >> well, you want people to be disciplined, and obviously, if people misspeak and they causes for no apparent reason, you know, small brush fires on their own, that's a distraction, but overall this is still an election about the economy. the president failed broken promises and now we have this issue with libya creeping into the debate over the last stretch here to election day. >> republican party chairman reince prevas, thank you for stopping by. the final days of the campaign next. on the road. so, what do you think? [ engine revs ]

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with me now former ohio governor ted strickland and virginia governor bob mcdonnell. gentlemen, thank you both for joining me. i want to start with you, governor mcdonnell, because you have a storm coming your way, so you are seeing less of the presidential candidates and more of the weather forecasters, so let me ask you, first. i know you are doing what can you to kind of baton down the hatches in virginia. what are you being told to expect there? >> well, we're expected, candy. we're expecting eight to ten inches of rain on the coast. hurricane force gusts. sustained winds of 50, 60 miles

per hour. mild to moderate or severe flooding, and an extentive power outage. that's the biggest concern. over three or four days of storm effects. we have an executive order. we've got the guard called out extra state police. we're ready. we're just asking people to be patient and ready for a long hale, but we have an aggressive power restoration program in place, and i think we're ready. >> let me ask you about the politics of the weather. let's say -- and virginia has known a couple of sort of what i would condoleezza rice consider long power outages, as does maryland where i live. you've had a couple of five-day power outages. how does that then affect the election? let's say that this is a storm that lasts two days, dumps all this water, widespread power outages. what if anything tuesday you haven't got the power up? what happens at the voting booth? i'm sorry, a week from tuesday. >> we have contingency plans in place. we have had a show a couple of months ago, and we had the

largest -- third largest power outage in history, but we got everything pretty much back on in seven days. we're not expecting that this time. we've got about 2,000 additional people that are coming into virginia to help our power suppliers, and the state board of electrics is already planning for extended hours in advance for absentee voting, and it's now a priority, moved up to the sale level hospitals and police stations to have power restored, so we don't anticipate the problem. we'll be ready, but we're planning for contingencies if there's still a problem. >> if you still have a problem on election day, you're going to make election places, schools, fire stations, all that kind of stuff, top priority for getting electricity back? is that what i hear you saying? >> absolutely. i think we'll be ready, candy. we'll have to wait and see come wednesday when the storm passes where we are, but all hands will be on deck from other states to help us, and our people have been through this before. we're just not used to a hurricane followed by cold front

and a snowstorm afterwards. >> okay. >> in the western part of the states. our people are ready. >> governor strickland, let me turn to you. i think you'll have a brush of the storm, but nothing to keep ohio politics at a standstill. i want to put up a couple of cnn-orc polls. this is choice for unlikely voters in ohio. the president 48%. governor romney 44%. i want to show you another poll that shows that 92% of folks likely voters in ohio say they have already made up their minds. is the table set in ohio? >> well, i think it is, but, candy, let me say to the governor and to all those that are going to be affected by the storm, ohio, we wish them the best, and i know the governor will do everything possible to make sure his state and his citizens are well cared for, and i -- you know, my heart goes out to him and to others who are dealing with these very

difficult circumstances. in regard to ohio, we are going to get some of the remnants of this storm, but it's going to be a great week in ohio. i think politically. both candidates are going to be here, and it's going to be a hard fought campaign, but the good news from my perspective is that president obama has maintained a small but a very consistent lead in ohio. i don't know of any poll that has shown the president not leading over the last few months, as a matter of fact. >> do you think it counts for the rise of independence? >> we have a good ground operation. >> what do you think -- >> i'm sorry? >> what do you think accounts for the rise of independents towards the romney campaign? what's going on there? >> i'm not sure there are many true independents. i think people who even refer to themselves as independents typically feel some kind of allegiance to one of the major parties or the other. ohio is a very closely divided

state, but ohio's unemployment, as you know, is 7%. the auto industry, which ohioans value greatly and provides a lot of jobs for our people is doing really well, and thanks to the president, and so i think ohioans are feeling -- i think they think our economy is coming back. >> any credit to your republican governor? >> i'm sorry? >> do you give any credit for that economy to your republican governor? >> i think two -- do, candy. >> well, candy, i think there are two major reasons why ohio's economy is coming back. first of all, the recovery act, which enabled ohio to be stabilized during the industry difficult time. ohio's economy started recovering before governor kasic became governor in 2010. our unemployment went down 1.6%. the recovery was underway in large part due to the recovery act, and the rescue of the american auto industry, which is so important to toledo and

cleveland and youngstown, and quite frankly, some 80 -- out of ohio's 88 counties, we believe benefit directly from the auto industry and so i'm not saying that there is -- there has been no improvement under the current governor, but i believe the table was set by president obama and ohioans recognize that, and i think that's why the president is going to win ohio. >> let me turn to governor mcdonnell. new washington post poll out showing president obama at 51. governor romney at 47%. this is a race that has a similar situation in ohio. your economy is doing better than the national economy is, and this has been a tough row for him to hoe. what does mitt romney have to do if he can get into the state after the storm to turn this around? >> well, first i do want to thank governor romney who called me yesterday and agreed to cancel three events in virginia today to allow our first responders to focus on that.

i appreciate it. the president is doing the same thing tomorrow. you mentioned the post poll. there are two other polls, both rasmussen and fox, that have romney up by two. it's margin of error. it's close, and it's going to come down to turn out the last undecided voters. i think why romney will win virginia is because he is the one that's going to reverse these sequestration cuts. they're going to devastate the military and cost us $200,000 jobs. the president has been a bystander and won't do that. he is the one with the plan to create jobs and we've got 23 million people that don't have jobs nationally and eight -- excuse me -- $16 trillion in debt. that's what virginians are concerned about and why there's been this momentum towards governor romney. the mishandling of the -- no transparency. 45 days after the fact. it's a great concern. either the president gave an order that was disobeyed by the

secretary of defense to provide support in benghazi or he didn't, and i think people want answers before this election on that, so that's what's going to determine the outcome. we got a great ground game, and i expect governor romney to win a close election in virginia, candy. >> you may need some voters to get to the poles. we wish you well. got a big storm coming before we even get to the election. we'll have our fingers crossed for virginia and maryland and surrounding states. thank you for being here. former ohio governor strick strickland, thank you as well. when we come back, an update on hurricane sandy.

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battering the carolina coast. cnn's george howell is in kill devil hills, income mc. george, tell me what's happening down there. >> hi, candy, good morning. what are you seeing happening here on the outer banks, a good indication of what is to come as this storm moves into the metro area. philadelphia, new york, washington d.c. where you are. we're getting the strong winds and we're getting the sideways rain, and if you look at what's happening back here, you got a good indication of how strong the winds are. you see what it's doing here to the atlantic. very rough, rough waters out there. we're expecting, candy, a storm surge anywhere from four to six feet on this side of the outer banks, and then on the south side anywhere from three to five feet of flooding. definitely an evolving situation here. this storm system continues to move northward, and will eventually hook left and head into the major metropolitan areas, candy. >> that's our george howell in kill devil hills, north carolina. thanks, george.

up next, which candidate is closer to closing the deal? >> you'll always have a president who fights for your families. >> this election is not about me. it's not about the republican party. it's about america, and it's about your family. (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities.

over five mule new jobs. exports up 41%. home values, rising. >> we're going to have to have a president that can work across the aisle. i'll work with you. i'll lead you in an open and honest way. i ask for your vote. >> president obama and mitt romney making their closing arguments in campaign ads this week. joining me for our roundtable, time magazine executive editor mike duffy, and democratic pollster emma greenberg and republican pollster. thank you. you kind of want to cry with all that music. you hardly know we've had the campaign we've had, right? i want to ask you all first about the polling because it seems to me that there are two separate stories here coming out, and one is from the obama campaign, which is this thing is not as close as everyone keeps saying.

we're solid in the swing states, and republicans know that. when we are looking at these national polls and even when we're looking at the state polls, do you see that as true? >> i think there is things we should be able to agree about.

>> i disagree. i think that it's actually stable. and that's where i think the ground game that everyone's talking about matters the most. i will tell you you're right, women are not evening, but they're about 51%, 52% for obama, he got 56%. the only reason why he's ahead a point or two, depending on the poll you look at nationally, is that he's doing okay with men. romney's getting 51% of men, which would mean a pretty small gender gap. >> i think that's -- guess what, we're going to know for sure -- i think that's totally wrong. president obama is losing white men by 30-plus points -- >> all -- >> yeah, he's going to get blacked by men by almost a double-digit margin. >> he was split evening in 2008. that would be a huge drop. >> it is huge. that's why he could lose the election. >> we'll see where he ends one men, too. one of the surprises we saw in

our poll in ohio, middle of the week, is among white men, even white men without college. they were holding at obama at about 43%, higher than we've seen in other states. it will be ironic it at the end of the day it's white men who make a difference. particularly into some of the upper industrial midwest states where the auto bailout has happened. >> i just want to -- it speaks to this. the chairman of the ohio republican party who said to "time" magazine, "there's no question that the automobile issue has probably cut into some traditional support we'd be running away with." it seems to me the support is probably white, blue collar workers. >> there have been 20 surveys released, 20 surveys that have been released since the debates. among independents, romney's ahead in 17 of 20. and at average, ahead of independents by ten pots. so what these polls also have to measure is what's the party i.d. difference going to be on election day. and if the party i.d. difference

in ohio is as what we're seeing nationally, two to four points with democrats closer, i this i we're going to wake up in ohio on election day with 100,000 vote margin. 50,000 to 100,000 votes is romney's or the president, i'm not -- that's beyond what i think pollsters can predict. >> two things. there's no question that obama struggled in '08 and struggles now with white/blue collar voters. as mike said, that is less true, not just in ohio but in indiana, wisconsin, and michigan. it's not just because of the auto bailout, it's because those economies are doing better than other parts of the country. the other thing that i was -- >> because they have republican governors. >> okay. well -- >> let me ask you, when you look at what has worked, seems it me we are where we were when we started this. >> right. >> i mean, for all that happened in between, this is president obama going but you don't want that guy because he'll take us back to what started this. you'll have governor romney saying he hasn't done enough.

the exact same argument they started with. is that the closing strategy? >> we may be getting to the uplifting, violin-swelling closing arguments in the next few days, but they haven't happened yet. at the moment, look for -- romney has a yacht and in a limousine -- no words associateded but you see the pictures. they generally try to close on something more deep than that, but we're not there yet which tells you how much further we have to go. >> the only days where obama had the beyond error margin of lead was during the sort of -- the republican primaries where there was a lot of yahoos were running for republican nomination. then also what romney consolidated quickly after the primary. then also the month and a half from august to september. otherwise the rest of the year, the race has been tied well it's against romney or whether obama of put up against generic republicans. i think not much has changed in the last of the year. >> we know that consumer confisdens at historic -- confidence is at historic lows. and the nbc/"wall street

journal" poll we ask if he's re-elected, would you like more or less the same, minor change, major change. 52% wanted major change. when you're an incumbent in a difficult economy and people are looking for major change, you are trying to do something really difficult. that's get four more years. we do this great question where we say what's your biggest concern, no more new ideas from obama or return to bush. that was 47-47. >> that's why romney is beginning to make the argument about how i represent the change. i think it's interesting. >> it is interesting. mike, thank you for joining us this morning, as well. anna, mike, we'll have you back after the elections to see how right or wrong we were. >> we'll sound much smarter after the election. >> we will. thank you very much. next, 2012 campaigns under card some down ballot races we're keeping our eye on.

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frack. freddie mac. if you're voting you have more than one decision to make. across the country there are 33 races and 12 governorships at stake. we asked our favorite cnners. >> i'm going to be watching in my home state of indiana. not only is this race interesting as it unseated long-time senator richard lugar before after richard mourdock's comments about rape -- >> i truly regret. i apologize. >> it's going to be interesting to see how this whole thing shakes out and if this red seat turns blue. >> i always love a personal story and in health whether or not mia love, a black mormon republican is going win a house seat is going to be historic. >> this is our time! we are truly the best last hope

on earth! >> senate races, house races, ballot initiatives. equality. man man. there's plenty to watch outside the presidential election. i'm looking forward to that special cnn music when you have a projection. >> last night the people of iowa spoke with a very clear voice. so i have decided to stand aside. >> i'm looking at minnesota right now, that congressional race michele bachmann, former republican presidential candidate, she apparently is in a tough race against the democrat, jim graves. i'm anxious to see what happens in minnesota. >> my favorite down-ballot race for this election cycle is the race for congress in california's 10th district. a guy by the name of jose hernandez is running, and he's an astronaut. to think that his ads could essentially be footage from him in space looking to the earth i

think is quite amazing. >> it's always safe to go with your home state on stuff like this, and i happen to be from ohio. so i'm going to go with theshired on brown/josh -- sherrod brown/josh mandel race. >> you are a liar. >> i don't need a lecture from a guy who can't wait to get to the next job and run for higher office and move up the ladder. >> you might try to push people around in washington, but you're not going to push me around. >> really looking forward to it being over. >> thanks for watching "state of the union." head to cnn.com/sotu for analysis and extras. if you missed any part of today's show, find us on itunes. "fareed zakaria gps" is next for our viewers in the united states. plp